This week, Jerry is back from the dead, we discuss Andy’s upcoming mega site visit and talk AD & Lync.

Jerry back from the dead

• Icinga – open source monitoring system
• PPTP setup on Linux
• Ansible – Configuration management
• Outgoing brute force attacks

Andy’s audacious intervention

Before:

The plan:

• Sort the network out
• Set up users on the new NAS box
• Set up different share on the NAS box for different purposes (effectively different partitions)

RAID levels

• RAID0 – striping across drives
• RAID1 – Mirror across drives
• RAID5 – Distributed parity
• JBOD – Just a Bunch of Disks
• RAID10/RAID50 – Striping and Mirroring

RAID is not backup

What happens when you RAID 24 SSD drives?

Backups

• Offsite – in case the office burns down
• Synology Sync
• Crashplan

Careful with that ACT database, Andy!

Remote access

Al’s discoveries

• Lync
• Domain Name Best Practice for AD
• After November 1, 2015 Certificates for Internal Names Will No Longer Be Trusted
• Exchange 2013 namespace (unbound and bound)
• Windows+I,(Windows+d)+(Alt-F4)
• Trello

Miscellaneous discussion

• HA/Quorum
• TTLs
• STONITH

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